#126: Create a wiki page for magazine covermount information
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Reporter: pfrields | Owner:
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: F14a: Pre-alpha
Component: other | Severity: urgent
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We often get inquiries from magazines asking for permission to bundle one
or more Fedora discs with a future issue. This is a fairly routine
process as long as the disc is an unmodified copy of Fedora media (i.e. an
official release). Some interaction with Red Hat Legal is required to
send out an agreement to the magazine.
We can speed up that interaction and the overall process if we have a page
that tells magazines what they need to provide, and to whom, for a
covermount agreement. Generally we need the following information, sent
to the ''press(a)fp.o'' address:
* The name (d/b/a) and address of the company producing the magazine
* The exact disc(s) that are to be bundled
* Contact information for the person making the request
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Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/126>
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Marketing team for the Fedora project.

Hi All,
First off appologies in advance if question has been covered before and this
isn't the right list, has there ever been any thought to have a Fedora store
where proceeds from T-Shirt, laptop bag, stickers, and coffee mugs could
benefit the Fedora project? Basically something like the store for the
GNOME project. I am sure there must be a good reason why this doesn't
already exist for the Fedora project, but I haven't found it as of yet. Oh
and yes I know of the Red Hat mini Fedora store.
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Mike

Hi
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Linux-distributions-to-include-run...
"Poettering says that the introduction of the new directory wasn't just
his own idea but that it has been discussed among the Debian, Fedora,
Suse and Upstart developers; Colin Watson said that he is happy to
support the use of the new directory in Ubuntu. Poettering indicated
that many developers working in this area may have wanted something like
/run for quite a while, but that they may have feared the potential
political consequences and discussions"
Rahul

Hi
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/72645
"Fedora 15 will come with a lot of new features and interesting changes
— including a whole new top-level directory in the form of /run for
runtime data.
This may sound trivial to many, but top-level directories tend to be a
touchy topic in some circles. Consider that there's an entire standard
that was hashed out years ago, it's surprising to see a top-level
directory casually introduced.
But Poettering says that he already has buy-in from the other major
distributions"
Rahul

Hi
http://www.montanalinux.org/fedora15-devel-update-20110326.html
"I've been using the GNOME 3 Shell more and I really like the changes
they've made since the Fedora 15 Alpha release. These changes include
larger icons in the Applications list and auto-managed virtual desktops.
Some people call this a "dumbing down" of the interface but I prefer to
call it streamlining. If you have a lot of previous GNOME 2.x experience
you might perceive it to be counter-intuitive... but give it a little
while. The streamlining really makes the new environment easy to learn
and use. It is elegant, and as one blogger put it... "it looks expensive"."
Rahul

Hi
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/223346/red_hat_proves_that_...
"Critics of free and open source software are fond of making the
argument that software must be locked up, patented and jealously guarded
if it is to serve as the basis for a successful business. Well, Red Hat
just refuted such claims in a big way this week with its fourth quarter
earnings report, which blew away analysts' expectations and placed the
company well on track for billion-dollar revenues in the upcoming year."
"Based in North Carolina, Red Hat is the company behind both the Fedora
and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Linux distributions. Fedora is
the free, community version of the software, while RHEL is sold as a
commercial product with support and services."
Rahul

Greetings, Marketeers!
F15 goodness is well underway. If you're interested in picking up
anything on the schedule, including doing a feature profile or want to
start digging in on one page release notes, please let us know!
Notes from the meeting are below.
See you next week!
Minutes:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2011-03-22/fedora_marke...
Full logs:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2011-03-22/fedora_marke...
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#fedora-meeting-1: Fedora Marketing
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Meeting started by rbergeron at 20:03:47 UTC. The full logs are
available at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2011-03-22/fedora_marke...
.
Meeting summary
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* Roll call, yo (rbergeron, 20:03:59)
* SCHEDULE SADNESS (rbergeron, 20:06:26)
* LINK:
http://rbergero.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-15/f-15-marketing-tasks.html
(rbergeron, 20:06:50)
* ACTION: rbergeron to follow up with FI team on logistics list on
friday about deployment dates. (rbergeron, 20:26:02)
* ACTION: rbergeron to pass baton to rrix for execution on bookmarks
addition if we are going live. (rbergeron, 20:26:24)
* ACTION: rbergeron to rediscuss next week for resolution if we don't
deploy by the 29th of march. (rbergeron, 20:26:47)
* FEATURE PROFILES (rbergeron, 20:27:47)
* If we're not up by the 29th of March, stickster believes there is an
infrastructure freeze that will delay us for a couple weeks.
(stickster, 20:27:50)
* ACTION: jsmith to be in charge of Gnome 3 feature profile (jsmith,
20:31:16)
* ACTION: rbergeron to take libreoffice and BG (rbergeron, 20:31:47)
* Other Business (rbergeron, 20:37:07)
* Summit (rbergeron, 20:37:59)
* ACTION: jsmith to get back with summit folks about booth layout
(rbergeron, 20:53:35)
* Fedora Insight (rbergeron, 20:54:03)
* ACTION: rbergeron to blog/email about FI content curation needs
(rbergeron, 20:56:49)
* IDEA: maybe do curation by day of the week, should also think about
getting people familiar with how to use FI, get them in FAS.
(rbergeron, 20:57:12)
* Anything else? (rbergeron, 20:58:14)
Meeting ended at 20:59:29 UTC.
Action Items
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* rbergeron to follow up with FI team on logistics list on friday about
deployment dates.
* rbergeron to pass baton to rrix for execution on bookmarks addition if
we are going live.
* rbergeron to rediscuss next week for resolution if we don't deploy by
the 29th of march.
* jsmith to be in charge of Gnome 3 feature profile
* rbergeron to take libreoffice and BG
* jsmith to get back with summit folks about booth layout
* rbergeron to blog/email about FI content curation needs
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* jsmith
* jsmith to be in charge of Gnome 3 feature profile
* jsmith to get back with summit folks about booth layout
* rbergeron
* rbergeron to follow up with FI team on logistics list on friday
about deployment dates.
* rbergeron to pass baton to rrix for execution on bookmarks addition
if we are going live.
* rbergeron to rediscuss next week for resolution if we don't deploy
by the 29th of march.
* rbergeron to take libreoffice and BG
* rbergeron to blog/email about FI content curation needs
* rrix
* rbergeron to pass baton to rrix for execution on bookmarks addition
if we are going live.
* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)

Hi
http://www.muktware.com/n/19/2011/846/tim-burke-ext4-not-going-anywhere-a...
"Red Hat engineers work actively to develop these features in the
upstream kernel, work both with the Fedora community and others to
integrate them for early adopters and then evaluate when they are robust
enough for enterprise users."
"*//*File systems are very long lived in the field since users tend to
maintain them for years and years. In many cases, enterprise users have
external storage so the storage will survive several generations of
servers. That means that ext4 is not going anywhere any time soon! That
said, Red Hat is an active contributor to the btrfs project and we are
actively working on getting some of the key inhibitors for wide btrfs
deployment finished with the upstream community"
Rahul